[PD] Re: hid code

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

We should keep this on the list since other people besides me can  
answer this question, perhaps quicker too, and it might be of general  
interest.

On Jun 24, 2006, at 8:17 AM, David Merrill wrote:

> HC -
>
> Apologies for the delay in putting my code into the CVS - I was in  
> the middle of generals exams, and had to freeze all other projects  
> until I finished. Now that I've finished (as of the end of last  
> week), I'm back to hacking on PD stuff.

No problem, glad its in there.

> So, I've now put my external, called "input_noticer" into the CVS.  
> It has a few dependencies, which are in the README, and my more  
> recent install of Ubuntu (dapper) seems to have broken something  
> about the hal/dmesg communication, meaning that my joysticks no  
> longer automatically show up as /dev/input/eventX nodes when I plug  
> them in. So I'm waiting for that to un-break, and you may want to  
> wait a bit before spending any time looking at this code.

> In the meantime, I've been trying to use "mknod" to get my  
> joysticks working recently, and the nodes that I made with mknod  
> don't seem to be recognized by linuxjoystick.. (it prints "using 0  
> relative axes, 0 absolute axes, and 0 buttons") Do you think the  
> new [HID] will work?

[linuxjoystick]?  I haven't thought about that object in a long  
while.  It should work fine with and /dev/input/eventX device, as  
long as the format hasn't changed too much in the 2.6 kernel.  [hid]  
uses the same thing, but should work on 2.6 kernels too (did I  
finally fix the 2.6 bugs for good?).  I can't say I've seen a problem  
with mknod devices, I have made /dev/input/eventX devices manually,  
but it was a while ago.  I definitely had them working.

.hc



>
> thanks,
> -David
>
> Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>>
>> So I am in the midst of a major upgrade to the [hid] object.  One  
>> thing that you should like is a total overhaul of how to can  
>> specify devices to open.  Like this:
>>
>> open by number: [open 1(
>> open by type: [open mouse 2(  [open joystick 0(
>> open by vendor/product ID: [open 0x204f 0x0210(
>>
>> I have this all working on Mac OS X, so GNU/Linux is next.  It  
>> sounds like you already have the code to do this on GNU/Linux, so  
>> I'd like to incorporate it.  But I couldn't find the source  
>> anywhere, is it in CVS yet?
>>
>> .hc
>>
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